UK+Education

Education in the U.K is split into 4 main areas Nursery, Primary, Secondary and higher education.

Nursery school is pretty much a school where you learn things like the alphabet and colours.

Primary school is the second stage in a standard U.K education, although sometimes nursery school can be missed out. Primary school children start of at the age of 4 all the way through until they are 11. Generally all the subjects are taught by the same teacher and more time is given to English and Maths to develop those core skills. A school day varies but it is usually from 9:00 Am until 3:15 Pm. You start school at 5 years old (year r) You go through 6 years (year 1,2,3,4,5 and 6) When you are year 6 you undertake some tests (SATs) Then you take 2 tests the Grammar Test and the Kent Test which decides what secondary school you go to. You work through 5 years of secondary school (Year 7,8,9,10 and 11) Then you choose whether you want to enter sixth form or not; if you do enter sixth form you perform an extra 2 years of school (Year 12 and 13)

University

University is the next stage of education after A levels. Your A Level results determine what sort of university you can get into as well as an interview which is taken by your chosen university. Unlike other Levels of education, you choose a course to study over a 5 year time span, either full time or part time.

__The Aston Webb building, University Of Birmingham, UK__

As you can see this University has a very large campus.